[Hum_Calendar_Events] Time Will Tell, But Epistemology Won't: Richard Rorty Archive Conference

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Time Will Tell, But Epistemology Won't: A Conference on Richard Rorty's
Archive
 
In March 2010, the UCI Library's Special Collection launched the archive
of Richard Rorty, the pragmatist philosopher, critical theorist, and
public intellectual who is commonly described as one of the most important
thinkers of his era.
 
Included in the UC Irvine collection are electronic word-processing files,
created between 1988 and 2003, which were retrieved from Rorty's 3.5"
floppy disks during processing of his personal papers.
 
Speakers at the May 14 conference will address a number of key questions
for criticism in the era of computational media. What is an archive if it
includes "born digital" materials? How do new forms of digital production
and reception change the character of scholarly discourse? What is the
relationship between public memory and computer memory? How should
teaching materials be handled in the age of open courseware? How can
Rorty's ideas about philosophy as cultural politics be read in both the
liberal and the academic blogospheres? How can more dialogue between
critical theory and the digital humanities be fostered?
 
The Richard Rorty papers are part of UC Irvine's Critical Theory Archive,
which includes significant works of Jacques Derrida, Paul de Man, J.
Hillis Miller, Wolfgang Iser, Murray Krieger, and Stanley Fish.
 
This celebratory event is sponsored by the UC Irvine Libraries, the UC
Irvine Humanities Center, the UC Irvine Critical Theory Emphasis, the UC
Irvine Department of Philosophy, the UC Irvine Department of Comparative
Literature, the Office of the Campus Writing Coordinator, and the
systemwide University of California Humanities Research Institute.
 
For more information, including abstracts of talks, please visit
http://virtualpolitik.org/rorty/
 
SCHEDULE
 
Friday, May 14, 2010
 
Humanities Gateway 1030
UC Irvine
Irvine, California
 
Rorty's Legacy 9:00 - 9:30 AM
 
    Elizabeth Losh, UC Irvine: Welcome
    David Theo Goldberg, UC Irvine: Opening Remarks
    Mary Rorty, Stanford:  Memory, Ethics, and Literary Custodianship in
the Era of Computational Media
 
Michelle Light, UC Irvine: "Designing the Born Digital Archive" 9:30-10:00 AM
 
Cultural Politics and the Born Digital, Michelle Light, Chair 10:00-11:00 AM
 
    Dawn Schmitz, UC Irvine: "The Born-Digital Manuscript as Cultural Form
and Intellectual Record"
 
    Mark Poster, UC Irvine: "Digital and Analogue Archives"
 
    Erin Obodiac, UC Irvine: "Digital Immunity"
 
    Tom Hyry, UCLA, Respondent
 
Break: 11:00 - 11:15 AM
 
Christine Borgman, UCLA: "The Digital Archive: The Data Deluge Arrives in
the Humanities" 11:15-11:45 AM
 
Rorty, Philosophy, and The Question Concerning Technology, David W. Smith,
Chair  11:45 AM - 1:15 PM
 
     Iain Thomson, University of New Mexico: "Rorty, Heidegger, and the
Danger and Promise of the Technological Archive."
 
   Mark Wrathall, UC Riverside: "Responding to Rorty: Heidegger's
'Academic Parochialism' and the Technological Age"
 
LUNCH
 
Margaret Gilbert, UC Irvine: "Rorty and Human Rights" 2:15-2:40 PM
 
Rorty as a Public Intellectual, Jonathan Alexander, Chair 2:40 - 4:45
 
    Ian Bogost, Georgia Tech: "We Think in Public"
 
    Steven Mailloux, Loyola Marymount University: "Rhetorical Pragmatism
and Histories of New Media: Rorty on Dreyfus on Kierkegaard"
 
    21st Century Scholarship from Ali M. Meghdadi, Brian Garcia, Tae-Kyung
Timothy Elijah Sung, UC Irvine: "Content Confronts Context"
 
Break:  4:45-5:00
 
Closing Speaker: Michael Bérubé, Pennsylvania State University: "Reading
Rorty Rhetorically" 5:00-6:30
 
 
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